LCHS hosts male beauty pageant

Tim Berger / Staff Photographer

Griffin Van Amringe is crowned and sashed the winner of the contest by Reed Buck who is wearing a tiara and a dress in the first ever Mr. La Canada beauty pageant hosted by the La Canada High School' ASB on Friday, March 14, 2014. The pageant, which was at La Canada High School, was a fundraiser for the St. Baldrick's Foundation to Conquer Childhood Cancers.

Griffin Van Amringe is crowned and sashed the winner of the contest by Reed Buck who is wearing a tiara and a dress in the first ever Mr. La Canada beauty pageant hosted by the La Canada High School' ASB on Friday, March 14, 2014. The pageant, which was at La Canada High School, was a fundraiser for the St. Baldrick's Foundation to Conquer Childhood Cancers. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)

Sara Cardine, sara.cardine@latimes.com

In the interest of gender equality, 10 male students at La Cañada High School vied for the title of “Mr. La Cañada” Friday night during a first-ever male beauty pageant hosted by the school’s Associated Student Body.

Competitors participated in a Q&A portion, a dance number, talent competition and a swimsuit competition, according to ASB adviser Bill Lively.

“I told them there have to be tops, and no Speedos,” Lively said in an earlier interview.